Waking Up Is Hard To Do

So remember last week when I was all cavalier about getting #UpnOut in the a.m.? Remember how upbeat I was about the fact that I was waking up regularly and that I was slowly but surely overcoming the god-awful soreness that came with being a new runner?

Wellllll, I’ve had a setback. Let me say: Getting up is NOT easy (and, as I would argue with even the most chipper morning person, NOT natural). I forgot what kinship I feel with sloths and small toy dogs and other mammals that sleep all the time. I forgot that sleeping is, like, kind of a hobby of mine.

I only have myself to blame: My husband has tried to get me up, I have friends and co-workers egging me on. But it seems that before sunrise, the evil side of my brain takes over the well-meaning part and just …LIES. Here’s a sampling:

It might be imperceptible, but you feel a slight pain in your peroneus brevis. (That’s a tiny, obscure bone in your ankle, FYI.) You don’t want it to get worse, do you?

Remember that weird blister you got on your foot that one time? Yeah, it might happen again. Skip the gym.

Someone almost sneezed on you on the subway last night! The flu is going around!! Stay under the covers and ward it off!!!

Oh, forgot to tell you that you have no clean socks. Just sleep on it.

Hold up, you weren’t done dreaming about saving Daniel Craig (as Dawson in Dawson’s Creek) from the Hulk (played by Sandra Bullock) while eating a brownie sundae. Shut that alarm up and let’s keep going.

Needless to say, I wake up past gym time finding that I feel fine, I have plenty of clean socks and I didn’t wind up saving James Bond from getting a Hulk body slam anyway. Damn you, evil brain!

The good news is that I’m not too far off track. I just need to get up tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that. Ugh, I’m tired already.

Peeps, I’m looking for real help: Was a setback inevitable? What can I do to get back on track in the a.m.? How do I quiet the excuse-ready part of my brain when I’m barely awake? Tell me everything @jdrinne … and follow me to see how I do.